Apple Watch Extract API

A focused use case

Show the completion state and a short approved result from a phone or server-side extraction job, with a clear route to fuller review elsewhere.

A practical workflow

Design a small status contract first. Evaluate a companion-device communication pattern for the target app, keep payloads compact, and make stale or unavailable results visible rather than presenting them as fresh.

An example record contract

These fields illustrate the decisions to make before implementation. Adapt the names and required values to the receiving system; the table is not a promise of a live endpoint or a provider-specific response.

Limits worth keeping visible

This is a suggested companion-app architecture, not a native ExtractAPI.com watch app or a claim that the watch can scrape arbitrary sources. Validate device behavior in your implementation.

Before increasing the workload

Run a small, authorized test set through the whole path, including the receiving application. Keep accepted, rejected, and incomplete outcomes distinguishable. A result should retain the context needed to explain its meaning after it leaves the extractor.

Continue with Self-Host Extract API: Build an Operating Model for the full implementation discussion, and use the sample contract documentation to review the shape of a handoff.